Ask HN: Starlink Competitor Without Musk?

Posted by solardev on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @10:19AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Is there anything on the horizon (or over it...) that might compete with Starlink for internet access?

It seems like a wonderful, revolutionary service, and Musk deserves a lot of credit for his part in making it real. But I find his Twitter shenanigans and spiraling descent into politics to be pretty disturbing and don't really want to support his companies.

Will there be any alternatives anytime soon?

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Re:Ask HN: Starlink Competitor Without Musk? by h2odragon on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @10:23AM (#41777705)

https://www.aboutamazon.com/what-we-do/devices-services/proj...

The owner also has politics, but they may be more amenable to your prejudices. I gather the FCC is very eager to help them get running too.

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Re:Ask HN: Starlink Competitor Without Musk? by ziggyzecat on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @10:50AM (#41777964)

you'd want what exactly? 10 times more small satellites in the {or}bits (i never noticed ...)?

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Re:Ask HN: Starlink Competitor Without Musk? by inemesitaffia on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @02:38PM (#41780400)

In what space?

There's several satellite providers in GEO, MEO and LEO that compete with SpaceX already. Did you think SpaceX invented SATCOM?

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Re:Ask HN: Starlink Competitor Without Musk? by getwiththeprog on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @01:43AM (#41784857)

There is https://oneweb.net/ but they only sell through other comms companies (like Telstra in Australia)

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Re:Ask HN: Starlink Competitor Without Musk? by inemesitaffia on Thursday October 10, 2024 @08:55AM (#41798323)

There's many online resellers tho

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